Several human rights organisations have condemned the illegal detention of three youths by Pakistani forces in Balochistan. These organisations said the cycle of persecution by Pakistani forces in Balochistan continues amid an escalating wave of enforced disappearances across the province. 

 

 

Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, said that the Deputy organiser of the National Democratic Party, Salman Baloch, along with two others were forcibly disappeared during an illegal raid conducted yesterday at Bolan Plaza in the provincial capital Quetta. Paank said that there has been a surge in illegal detentions of political workers in Balochistan regardless of their backgrounds. The rights body urged the international community to press Pakistan over its continuous human rights violations in Balochistan, including enforced disappearances.

 

 

Condemning the incident, the Baloch Women Forum described the extrajudicial custody of Salman Baloch and his companions from Quetta as a continuation of Pakistan’s tactics to curb democratic political activism in Balochistan. The BWF expressed solidarity with the National Democratic Party and called on the international community to take notice of the direct barbarism on democratic political activism in Balochistan.